Li Ka-Shing, Asia’s wealthiest man, knows what the future looks like: virtual currency.
Having backed a number of tech startups early in the game via Horizons Ventures – like a small site called Facebook, Summly, Waze and that Facebook comic strip app Bitstrips, it’s obvious that Li has uncanny foresight when it comes to doling out investment dollars.
As 2014 is just around the corner, and you’re planning your New Year’s Resolutions – we’re sure that every entrepreneur has “more networking” on their list of things to do more of in 2014 in Hong Kong – so we’ve compiled a handy list (that we plan to keep updating) of the different meet-ups, associations and communities that revolve around entrepreneurship and technology outside our own StartupsHK group so that you may find other people to network with on your startup journey.
There are a variety of entrepreneurial groups that are readily offering weekly and monthly meetups and talks, with you ( the new or seasoned entrepreneur), in mind – we’ve compiled a list of 10 entrepreneurial groups you should get to know while you’re building a company in Hong Kong:
Sopheap Lao is an international serial entrepreneur and a father of 4, who was born in a Chinese-Cambodian-Vietnamese family. He was educated in France and worked as a consultant to global MNO’s for the last 16 years in over 10 countries. Now he is the founder and CEO of Mobexo, a mobile payment company that wants you to forget about payments and that actually is a one-stop-shop financial and added-value services provider for online and SME retailers. After 3.5 years of R&D in France and Vietnam, Sopheap moved to Hong Kong in May 2013 to launch Mobexo’s commercial operations, targeting 10,000+ users and 2,000+ merchants by Q1 2014.
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